Skin remains in a juvenile Macrocnemus bassanii Nopcsa (Reptilia, Prolacertiformes) from the Middle Triassic of Northern Italy

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-48

  Renesto, Silvio ^a   Avanzini, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSILIZATION; JUVENILE; REPTILE; SKIN; TAPHONOMY; TRIASSIC;

BESANO; ITALY; LOMBARDY; VARESE;

REPTILIA;

EID: 0038563180     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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